THROUGH SWEDEN. 
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when he cenfures an Englifh, French, or Italian traveller for 
affirming that there is no fuch thing as convenient travelling in 
Sweden, and on the other hand maintains, that his country 
abounds in comforts; every one that has the leaf!: knowledge of 
the fubjed, will immediately perceive the error and fallacy of fuch 
a pofition. 
When a native of the North reprefents that “ you may travel as 
“ fpeedily in Ruffia and Sweden, as in France or England ; and 
“ that on the whole you meet with as good accommodation at 
“ the inns in thefe cold regions as in any part of Italy, fo much 
“ reforted to by Grangersthough I may entertain a great efteem 
for that perfon in other refpeds, yet I begin to fufped that he was 
never in any one of thofe countries which he ufes for his compa- 
rifon. The only point on which Sweden will bear being men¬ 
tioned with England, is the roads. But there are no public ve¬ 
hicles, fuch as a ftage-coach, mail, diligence, or other carriage, for 
the convenience of common travellers, who unite two principal 
objeds in their journeys, viz. expedition and cheapnefs. There is 
no regular conveyance between the country and the capital; none, 
for example, between Gothenburg and Stockholm ; Stockholm 
and Gefle ; Gefle and Upfala, or the other principal towns of the 
provinces. The reafon affigned by the Swedes, “ that there is no 
“ need of ftage-waggons and the like, for the tranfportation of 
“ merchandize, as the country is every where interfeded by lakes 
“ and navigable rivers,” is not a fufficient excufc for the want of 
public carriages to accommodate paffengers. In France and Eng¬ 
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